Thanks to your good posts before on the importance using a good sunscreen, I went out to my health food store and selected one with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. Not that cheap, but if it's good, then it's worth it! It's "Derma Soleil Natural Sunblock with Ectoin, Emblica & Liposome Collagen SPF30 PABA-free"

Do you see anything possibly comedogenic here? My face doesn't react to much, but I just want to be sure.

I'm no expert on comedogenicity (comedogenicity?!), but after doing a little quick internet research (I have waaay too much time on my hands. Wait--no I don't, I just don't want to do my homework.), mostly from http://www.zerozits....es/article6.htm I've come to the following conclusions:

A lot of the comedogenic ingredients still may not break you out, though. Lots of people stick a lot of that stuff on their skin, apparently with good results. So, use your best judgement. Have fun with the amusement park!

Also if you want to try very inexpensive titanium/ zinc sunblock that is non comedogenic Try Baby Magic SPF 50 it's available in every supermarket or pharmacy and only is about $11.00 for a large bottle. Pink bottle with blue print !!I tried it when I forgot my own sunblock so I used my new grand daughters sunblock and it worked really great.

Also if you want to try very inexpensive titanium/ zinc sunblock that is non comedogenic Try Baby Magic SPF 50 it's available in every supermarket or pharmacy and only is about $11.00 for a large bottle. Pink bottle with blue print !!I tried it when I forgot my own sunblock so I used my new grand daughters sunblock and it worked really great.

The chemicals in the Baby Magic are to protect against the UVB rays which are harmul as well. These chemicals are probably the safest ones. The other that I usually use ( no chemicals ) is made by Fallene and is called Cotz ( pronounced coats ) only titanium and zinc. they do make 2 other with UVB protection but they do contain some of the same chemicals but no Parsol

Jc - your sunscreen contains Lanolin!!! Watch out with that, I found it to be very pore-clogging - when using E45 as a moisturiser, which contains a lot of lanolin. I think it depends on the amount in the product though. I suppose the best way to find out is to try it and see...

Thanks Ross...I know...I've been doing some research on the lanolin, and it says that the synthesized (non-natural) lanlin is fairly pore cloggin. That's gotta suck! I was hoping that this would be a good one too.

It's pretty hard to test it out though. Like...how comedogenic is comedogenic? How long (or short) will it take me to break out if indeed it is comedogenic (I know about the 1-5 scales).

Also, would people who are not prone to breakouts also breakout with a very comedogenic ingredient?

I think different things are comedogenic (and to different degrees, too!) for different people.

For me personally, I always have acne, but I have yet to find anything that I can put on my skin to actually make it worse. So, apparently I'm not sensitive to many/most "comedogenic" ingredients. I still try to be careful most of the time, though. Similarly, I haven't found anything I can put on my skin to make it better, either. Oh well.

Anyway, I suspect that a breakout resulting from a topical would happen relatively quickly (a couple days? *shrug*), as your pores are being clogged from the top down rather than from the bottom up.

There are many people that are sensitive to any form of lanolin, I try to avoid most products with lanolin as one of the main ingredients. Some of my clients don't really have breakouts from the lanolin but almost have an allergic type reaction...stinging, redness and sometimes hives.

Zha...Yeah, that's the scary part. Who KNOWS how long it takes for these comedogenic ingredients to take effect.

Richard...would this allergic type reaction occur on most parts of the body then? I know that the face is the most sensitive, but I'm wondering if, say, if I tried this sunscreen on my arms, might it be a good enough test area. Or maybe the neck? I just want to avoid testing it on my face for the time being.